Color and Lighting Test

Plan on doing lots of paint an lighting, but wanted to test some first in the basement landing room. Here is the before.

And now with a paint test (rough, not finished) and a single small track light fixture.

Idea here is to make the low (8') ceiling look taller, which it does, and works well with the lighting. The fixture is temporary. Also found that the light fixtures in this house don't have electrical boxes behind them, just surface fixtures. That will require some additional work, but not a big deal. This room will definitely a require a dimmer, and the lights will be around the perimeter of the room.

This does tell me that this is only really a color pallet for the basement, but in there it works quite well. I do also think that some ceiling trim would potentially dress it up a lot.

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Front Windows and Deck Ledger

Finally getting started on the front basement windows. Will also be installing the ledger for the front deck, so some extra demo of the stucco was required. My temporary vent cover stucco was a little harder to remove, so I haven't done it yet in these pictures.

Basement Bedroom Window

Finally getting the first new window installed in the basement bedroom. There was some wood rot under it, so I had to replace that wood, and update the sheathing. Ran out of sealing tape so it's only partly done in the last picture.

Revised Prototype

Playing with paint to make the bookshelf a little more dramatic and separate it more from the upper wall. Ignore the water stain, washing machine delivery. Looks good so far. If I continue to like it I'll make a more permanent shelf later when it's time to finish the house. I used scrap for this one, so the top will obviously go all the way to the far wall, and I'll integrate it with the bricks better.

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